EP0098084B1 - Révélateur liquide auto-fixant pour le développement d'images électrographiques et procédé pour son utilisation - Google Patents

Révélateur liquide auto-fixant pour le développement d'images électrographiques et procédé pour son utilisation Download PDF

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EP0098084B1
EP0098084B1 EP83303525A EP83303525A EP0098084B1 EP 0098084 B1 EP0098084 B1 EP 0098084B1 EP 83303525 A EP83303525 A EP 83303525A EP 83303525 A EP83303525 A EP 83303525A EP 0098084 B1 EP0098084 B1 EP 0098084B1
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  • This invention relates to liquid electrographic developers which self-fix to smooth surfaces at room temperature.
  • image charge patterns are formed on the surface of a suitable dielectric material such as a film or paper support.
  • the charge patterns (also referred to as latent electrostatic images), in turn, are rendered visible by treatment with an electrographic developer containing electroscopic marking particles which are attracted to the charge patterns. These particles are called toner particles.
  • a liquid developer is composed of a dispersion of toner particles in an electrically insulating carrier liquid.
  • a liquid developer is applied to the surface of a support bearing a charge pattern.
  • the visible image is fixed to the surface by heating to temperatures above room temperature to fuse the toner to the support.
  • fixing to porous or fibrous supports can be accomplished at room temperature through the use of a linear addition polymer toner, having a low glass-transition temperature, and a nonvolatile carrier to carry the toner particles into the interstices of the support.
  • toner adhesion to the substrate is enhanced by entanglement within the pores or fibers of the support.
  • Such developers are non-self-fixing when employed on smooth nonporous surfaces such as film substrates.
  • Liquid developers containing dispersed wax are also described in the prior art.
  • liquid developers which contain polyethylene wax as a release agent for images formed by such developers.
  • Wax as a developer component is also reported in US Patents 4,081,391 and 4,060,493 to K. Tsubuko et al, as an agent for dispersability and transferability of graft copolymer toner materials comprising mainly vinyl addition polymer chains with ester linkages only at the graft (bran ⁇ hing) points.
  • European patent specification 0,062,482 describes a liquid developer for providing heat-fixable toner images which contains, dispersed in a solvent mixture, particles of thermoplastic resin and particles of wax and a wax dispersing agent which has certain specified solubility characteristics in the solvent mixture and its components. From these patents, wax would not be expected to contribute to the fixing of a toner image to a substrate at room temperature.
  • Deveiopers of the present invention comprise a volatile, electrically insulating liquid carrier-and, dispersed in the carrier, (a) toner particles comprising a linear polyester binder and (b) wax in a concentration usually above 0.125 part, and preferably above 0.25 part, by weight per part polyester, which is sufficient to fix the toner particles to a substrate upon evaporation of the carrier at ambient temperature.
  • liquid electrographic developers-of the invention unexpectedly are self-fixing; that is, toner images formed from these developers on a substrate, particularly a substrate with a smooth, nonporous surface, are fixed merely by exposure to ambient conditions.
  • the present invention also provides a method of forming self-fixed toner images using the liquid electrographic developers of the invention.
  • a developer When such a developer is contacted with an electrostatic latent image on a support and the carrier evaporated at ambient temperature, the toner and wax self-fix to the surface of the support without the need for externally applied heat or otherwise heating above ambient temperature, e.g., 20°C.
  • preferred developers include polyethylene waxes, ionic polyester binders and optional components such as charge control agents, colorants, stabilizing agents and other liquid-developer constituents.
  • the carrier liquid employed according to the present invention is selected from a variety of liquids which are volatile at ambient temperature, e.g., 20°C. These liquids should be electrically insulating and have a dielectric constant less than about 3.
  • volatile signifies that the liquid carrier is capable of substantially complete evaporation from the surface of a toner image-bearing element during use.
  • the film surface also contains residual carrier liquid associated with both the toner and background areas of the image.
  • the residual carrier must be capable of evaporating within about 60 seconds under ambient (room temperature) conditions, e.g., atmospheric pressure and a temperature of 20°C.
  • ambient temperature room temperature
  • the volatility of a liquid is not dependent solely on its boiling point as there are liquids with high boiling points which volatilize more rapidly than low boiling-point liquids.
  • Useful carriers include one or more liquids having a dielectric constant of less than about 3 and a volume resistivity greater than about 10' 0- ohm/cm.
  • Suitable carrier liquids include volatile halogenated hydrocarbon solvents, for example, fluorinated lower alkanes, such as trichloromonofluoromethane and trichlorotrifluoroethane.
  • Preferred carriers are volatile alkylated aromatic liquids or isoparaffinic hydrocarbons having a boiling range of below 200°C.
  • Representative preferred carriers include Isopar G (a trademark of Exxon Corporation for an isoparaffinic hydrocarbon liquid); cyclohydrocarbons, such as cyclohexane, a Solvesso 100 (a trademark of Exxon Corporation for an aromatic hydrocarbon liquid).
  • the self-fixing developers of the present invention comprise, as a dispersed constituent, toner particles which serve as the principal developing constituent for an electrostatic latent image.
  • These particles are composed of linear polyester binder.
  • the linear polyester is amorphous, i.e., one which exhibits substantially no melting endotherm and broad X-ray diffraction maxima, as is typical of amorphous polymers.
  • the glass-transition temperature, Tg, of the polymers moreover, as determined by conventional differential scanning colorimetry, preferably exceeds 40°C, and most preferably is in the range from about 50°C to about 150°C.
  • Suitable linear polyesters comprise recurring diol-derived units and recurring diacid-derived units.
  • Preferred polyester binders have one or more aliphatic, alicyclic or aromatic dicarboxylic acid recurring units and recurring diol-derived units of the formula: wherein:
  • iinear polyesters are those which have up to 35 mole percent (based on the total moles of diacid units of ionic diacid-derived units of the structure: wherein:
  • polyester resins include, for example, the linear polyester ionomer resins disclosed in US Patent 4,202,785 issued May 13, 1980 to S. H. Merrill et al and the noncrystalline linear polyesters described in US Patent 4,052,325 issued October 4, 1977, to D. Santilli.
  • wax as a carrier-insoluble constituent, in a sufficiently high concentration cooperates unexpectedly with the polyester binder and volatile carrier,
  • the developer contains sufficiently high concentrations of wax, preferably in excess of 0.25 part wax, by weight, per part polyester binder, the resulting developing composition is capable of self-fixing on an electrostatic image on a support at room temperature.
  • the concentration of wax in the novel developer of the present invention preferably exceeds 0.25 part wax, by weight, per part polyester binder. More preferably, a concentration from 0.5 to 1 part wax per part binder is employed.
  • concentration of a specific wax at which self-fixing, as defined below, commences may be necessary to establish the concentration of a specific wax at which self-fixing, as defined below, commences.
  • Waxes employed in the present invention generally include low-molecular-weight waxes having a softening point of about 60°C to about 130°C.
  • a useful wax is a polyolefin wax, a triglyceride wax such as an hydrogenated vegetable or animal oil, or a natural wax.
  • the wax is a polyethylene wax which is available commercially from Eastman Chemical Products Inc., under the tradename "Epolene E” for a series polyethylene waxes; or the waxes available from Shamrock Chemicals Company under the tradenames "S-394" and "S-395" and from American Hoechst under the tradename "VP Ceridust” wax.
  • Other suitable waxes are disclosed in US Patent 4,081,391 issued March 28, 1978. Representative other waxes which are useful include carnauba wax, beeswax, ethylenepropylene copolymer waxes, paraffin waxes, long-chain petroleum waxes and amide waxes.
  • Waxes selected for use in the present invention can take the form of a separately dispersed constituent from the toner particles in the liquid carrier.
  • the wax can be incorporated directly into the toner particle by melt-blending as discussed in greater detail below.
  • the wax is incorporated into the toner particies.
  • developers which are useful for the present invention contain from about 0.5 to about 4 percent by weight of the defined linear amorphous polyesters, based on the total developer. These developers contain from about 99.5 to about 96 percent by weight of the volatile liquid-carrier vehicle.
  • liquid developers of the present invention without further addenda, it is often desirable to incorporate in the developer, including the toner, such addenda as charge control agents, colorants and dispersing agents for the colorants and/or wax.
  • the resultant developer composition comprises the volatile liquid carrjer, the amorphous polyester toner particles, and wax in the specified concentration.
  • colorants such as carbon black pigments are also included as a toner constituent.
  • a representative list of colorants is found in Research Disclosure, Vol. 109, May, 1973, in an article entitled "Electrophotographic Elements, Materials and Processes".
  • the colorant concentration when colorant is present, varies widely with a useful concentration range, being about 10 to about 90 percent by weight of the total dispersed constituents.
  • a preferred concentration range is from about 35 to about 45 percent by weight, based on the dispersed constituents.
  • the self-fixing developers of the present invention include a charge control agent to enhance uniform charge polarity on the developer toner particles.
  • charge control agents have been described heretofore in the liquid-developer art and are usefui in the developers of the present invention. Examples of such charge control agents may be found in Stahly et al US Patent 3,788,995 issued January 29,1974, which describes various polymeric charge control agents. Other useful charge control agents include phosphonate materials described in US Patent 4,170,563 and quaternary ammonium polymers described in US Patent 4,229,513.
  • Nonpolymeric charge control agents are also useful, such as the metal salts described by Beyer, US Patent 3,4T7,019 issued December 17, 1968.
  • Other charge control agents known in the liquid-developer art may also be employed.
  • a partial listing of preferred representative polymeric charge control agents for use in the present invention includes poly(styrene-co-lauryl methacrylate-co-sulfoethyl methacrylate), poly(vinyl-toluene-co- lauryl methacrylate-co-lithium methacrylate-co-methacrylic acid), poly(styrene-co-lauryl methacrylate-co-lithium sulfoethyl methacrylate), poly(vinyltoluene-co-lauryl methacrylate-co-lithium methacrylate), poly(styrene-co-lauryl methacrylate-co-lithium methacrylate), poly(t-butylstyrene-co-styrene-co-lithium sulfoethyl methacrylate), poly(t-butylstyrene-co-lauryl methacrylate-co-lithium methacrylate),
  • the amount of charge control agent used will vary depending upon the particular charge control agent and its compatibility with the other components of the developer. It is usually desirable to employ an amount of charge control agent within the range of from about 0.01 to about 10.0 weight percent based on the total weight of a working-strength liquid-developer composition.
  • the charge control agent may be added in the liquid developer simply by dissolving or dispersing the charge control agent in the volatile liquid-carrier vehicle at the time concentrates or melt-blends of the components are combined with the liquid-carrier vehicle to form a working-strength developer.
  • a working-strength developer comprising the aforementioned polyesters.
  • one or more developer concentrates are prepared for each of the developer components.
  • a concentrate is a concentrated solution or dispersion of one or more developer components in a suitable volatile, electrically insulating liquid solvent for the binder.
  • the concentrates are then admixed in a preselected sequence, the admixture slurried with the carrier liquid to dilute the components, and the slurry homogenized to form the working-strength developer containing separately dispersed wax and toner particles.
  • the developer can be prepared without using a solvent for the polyester binder by melt-blending the dispersed constituents including the wax at a temperature above the melting temperature of the amorphous polyester.
  • the resulting melt blend is cooled, pulverized and dispersed in the volatile carrier.
  • the resulting dispersion is ball milled to form toner particles incorporating both the wax and the polyester of the size desired.
  • the present liquid developers are employed to develop electrostatic charge patterns carried by various types of substrates.
  • the surface of the substrate to be developed is smooth, nonporous and, hence, impermeable to the developer carrier fluid.
  • Such elements are either photoconductive themselves or are adapted to receive charge images, as disclosed by Gramza et al, US Patent 3,519,819 issued July 7, 1970.
  • the developers are employed with a photoconductive film element whose surface is coated with a nonporous arylmethane photoconductor composition such as disclosed by Contois et al, US Patent 4,301,226 issued November 17, 1981.
  • fixing refers to the firm adhesion of a toner image to a substrate
  • self-fixing refers to such adhesion upon evaporation of carrier at ambient temperature, e.g. 20°C, in the absence of externally applied heat or pressure.
  • a self-fixed image is rub-resistant and will not freely transfer to other contiguous surfaces.
  • the adhesion of images containing polyesters and wax to a smooth surface is at least sufficient to resist removal by heavy pressure finger-rubbing, thus providing an imaged element which is immediately usable.
  • an image containing insufficient wax for the amount of polyester employed will not adhere to the smooth surface; a sweep of a finger with light to moderate pressure over the image will easily remove the toner.
  • the adhesion of the present amorphous polyester/wax images is also measurably better under ambient temperature development conditions and no other externally applied heat.
  • the toner images can be subjected to finger-rubbing with finger pressure varying from light to moderate to heavy pressure. The ease with which the image is removed at each finger pressure is then noted, thus producing the following rank order of adhesion:
  • rub test to simulate finger-rubbing.
  • the rub test comprises the application of a 700-gram weighted oleic acid-soaked patch approximately 5 mm in diameter to a toner-bearing image and oscillating a portion of the image back and forth underneath the absorbent patch.
  • Oleic acid is chosen to simulate human oil.
  • Rub resistance is determined as a range of A to B, wherein A is the number of oscillatory passes (a pass being one movement of the patch back and forth) it takes to first interrupt the toner image integrity, while B represents the number of passes necessary to completely remove the subjected portion of the image by such rubbing.
  • Specific toner images prepared in accordance with the present invention can be expected to exhibit an A value of from about 1 to about 9 passes and a B value of from about 2 to 12 passes.
  • higher A-B values are obtainable depending on such factors as the specific polyesters employed, as well as the nature of the smooth surface to which the toner is self-fixed.
  • the resulting melt blend and two parts, by weight, per part binder of soluble stabilizer polymer were ball-mvetted with 3 mm. steel balls in Isopar G (trade mark) hydrocarbon liquid to make a developer having approximately 2 g of solids per liter of total developer.
  • the amounts of wax and dispersing agent were varied in the developers and the resulting developers were employed to develop electrostatic images on a 'Kodak' EKTAVOLT (trade marks of Eastman Kodak Company) recording film.
  • Such films comprise a resinous layer of photoconductor compounds overlaying a conductive film support.
  • the films were charged initially to +500 volts and exposed to neutral-density test targets for 5 sec.
  • the exposed films were immersed in the developers for 10-30 sec and the resulting images air-dried for about 1 min.
  • the images were subjected to the rank-ordered, finger-rubbing test described previously. The results of this test are reported in Table 1.
  • Table 1 demonstrate that self-fixed images having level 6 or greater rub resistance (Examples 4-5 and 10-16) occur when the amount of wax in the developer is sufficiently high and that consistently good results occur when the level of wax exceeds 0.25 part by weight per part polyester binder (Examples 5, 14 and 16). In some instances, the amount of wax required for level 6 rub resistance, is less when the developer also contains wax dispersing agent (Example 12 compared with Example 3).

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1. Révélateur électrographique liquide auto-fixant comprenant un véhicule volatil électriquement isolant et, dispersées dans ce véhicule, a) des particules de développateur constituées d'un liant polyester linéaire, et b) une cine en concentration suffisante pour fixer les particules de développateur au substrat par évaporation du véhicule à température ambiante.
2. Révélateur selon la revendication 1, contenant plus de 0,25 parties en masse de cire par partie de polyester.
3. Révélateur selon les revendications 1 ou 2, dans lequel la cire est incorporée dans les particules de développateur.
4. Révélateur selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel la cire est une polyoléfine, un triglycéride ou une cire naturelle.
5. Révélateur selon la revendication 4, dans lequel la cire est du polyéthylène à une concentration comprise entre 0,5 et 1,0 partie en masse par partie de polyester.
6. Révélateur selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel le liant est formé d'un polyester linéaire ayant a) un ou plusieurs motifs acide dicarboxylique aliphatique, alicyclique ou aromatique et b) des motifs diol de formule:
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dans laquelle G' représente un groupement alkylène à chaine droite ou ramifiée de 2 à 12 atomes de carbone, cycloalkylène, cycloalkylènebis(oxyalkylène) ou cycloalkylènedialkylène.
7. Révélateur selon la revendication 6, dans lequel le polyester comprend jusqu'à 35 moles % (par rapport au nombre total des motifs diacide), d'un motif diacide ionique de structure:
Figure imgb0010
dans laquelle A représente un groupement sulfoarylène, sulfoaryloxylène, sulfocycloalkyfène, arylsulfonylimino, sulfonylarylène, iminobis (sulfonylarylène), sulfoaryloxysulfonylarylène et sulfoaralkylarylène ou les sels alcalins ou d'ammonium de ces groupements.
8. Révélateur selon l'une quelconque des revendications précédentes, dans lequel le véhicule liquide volatil est un hydrocarbure isoparaffinique.
9. Procédé électrographique de formation d'une image de développateur auto-fixée, consistant à:
a) former une image latente électrostatique sur une surface,
b) développer cette image avec un révélateur électrographique liquide autofixant tel que décrit dans l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 8, pour former une image de développateur non fixée comprenant le dit développateur, un cire et un véhicule volatil, et
c) fixer l'image de développateur en laissant le véhicule liquide s'évaporer de l'image de développateur à température ambiante.
10. Procédé selon la revendication 9, dans lequel la surface est une couche photoconductrice lisse, non poreuse, comprenant un photoconducteur et un liant polymère filmogène pour le dit photoconducteur, ou bien est une couche réceptrice diélectrique lisse, non poreuse, non photoconductrice, ou bien est un support de film.
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